Episode 670: UFC 322 is the big banana

The Co-Main Event MMA Podcast

Chad Dundas

Sports, Leisure

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

It’s November in the UFC, and you know what that means! We’re headed out to Madison Square Garden with a fairly stacked card. UFC 322 features a pair of championship fights in its main and co-main events, where two reigning titlists will try to fend off challengers moving up in weight and looking to become champ-champs. We still say that? Champ-champ? Is that still a thing? Your welterweight main event features surprise champ Jack Della Maddalena trying to make his bones and earn his respect against former lightweight king and unstoppable juggernaut Islam Makhachev. The co-main, meanwhile, features women’s strawweight great Zhang Weili moving up to try to take women’s flyweight gold from the legendary Valentina Shevchenko. It’s gonna be a good one, kids — and it’s the second-to-last pay-per-view before the UFC moves to Paramount+ and (allegedly!) into the PLE era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Co-Main Event Podcast, and now your host, Ben Folks and Chad Dundas.
0:18.0	That's right. You're listening to another episode of the co-main event Mixed Martial Arts
0:23.5	podcast. I'm Chad Dundas. That's been Fulks. We're both longtime MMA journalists and for the last
0:30.7	13 years. We've been meeting here every week to break down all the action in the wild, weird,
0:37.3	and occasionally wonderful world
0:39.8	of mixed martial arts and Ben UFC 322 is nigh.
0:48.2	Nye.
0:49.1	Yeah, it's nigh.
0:50.5	It's coming up on Saturday.
0:51.8	We're doing it out there at Madison Square Garden, the actual granddaddy of them all in the city so nice they named it twice. New York, New York.
1:02.1	Must be November. Must be November in the UFC. If we're heading back out there to Madison Square Garden, going to do the shit. Again, closing in on reportedly the end of the pay-per-view era.
1:15.7	And honestly, you look at this one.
1:17.5	This is a strong card.
1:18.9	This reminds you how we used to do the shit.
1:21.4	Got two title fights.
1:23.0	I know everybody on the main card.
1:26.0	I even know most of the people on the prelims.
1:29.3	And you look at here and you go like, all right, if this is what it takes, they just come
1:33.7	off a fight night where there are almost no ranked fighters on it.
1:38.2	There were only, I think, two fights that included one ranked fighter against another and
1:41.9	there were both women's bouts on the prelims not even really spotlighted at all and then you turn around and you go okay that's what we're
1:50.0	doing this for we're doing the dog shit ones on from the apex so that we can keep all the good
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